We often listen to soulful tracks like “Main Yahaan Hoon” as just another romantic movie song. But if you strip away the Bollywood lens, these lines actually capture something profound about our inner conflict:
“Main tumhare hi dil ki toh aawaaz hoon...”
(I am nothing but the voice of your own heart...)

*The Voice We Run From*

We spend our days running outwards, chasing people, distractions, and achievements to feel complete. Yet, a quiet restlessness always lingers inside. We wonder why we feel empty even when we have everything.

The truth is, that persistent emptiness isn't an enemy, it is the voice of our own deeper consciousness trying to break through the noise of our daily chos. It is the part of us that knows our lifestyle of endless craving is a trap.

*Breaking Down Our Walls*

The song says:
“Kaisi sarhadein, kaisi majbooriyan...”
(What boundaries, what helplessness...)

We build heavy walls around ourselves, fear, social conditioning, and petty attachments, creating a false sense of a separate "self." We think protecting this brings security, but it only isolates us, making us feel imprisoned.

*Coming Home*

The constant refrain, “Main yahaan hoon” (I am right here), is a reminder that peace isn't a distant destination. It isn't locked behind external conditions or someone else's validation. It is already here, buried right beneath our restless thoughts and superficial desires.

When you stop running outward and finally face yourself, the walls crumble. The struggle ends, and you realize that what you were searching for outside was within you all along.

Has a simple song ever made you realize how much unnecessary chaos you create for yourself? Let's discuss it in the comments!

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Yesterday during the book reading session (which I attend during the weekends in Berlin, Germany) I did something differently. I shared Acharya ji's YouTube video where he is having a conversation with Professor Steve Fleming with the people in my group. :)

Usually I take a physical copy of Acharya ji's books with me, read a couple of chapters in silence with the rest of the attendees and after the one hour of focus is complete (you can read your book or work on your project) we then get together in a group of 6.

Each person is allocated 3 minutes to speak about their book/passion project and then the other attendees ask follow up questions or share something which resonated with them.

I have been teaching myself illustration for children's books (I am currently learning from other illustrators books) so that Acharya ji's teachings can be shared with children of all ages (rather than letting screens raise them and the likes of cocomelon rotting their brains beyond repair, it gives me nightmares)

This also used to be a passion project of mine since my own childhood.

Initially I used to carry the physical copy of the book and talk about the book within the 3 minutes allocated to me and also about the work Acharya ji is doing globally (lots of content to share now after his trip to the UK!)

Since the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with a different format, doing both the activities within the allocated 1 hour, reading a chapter or two from Acharya ji's books and also practicing illustration.

In the 3 minutes allocated to me, I first show to the attendees in my group, the paintings I worked on and then talk about my inspiration, Acharya ji. ❤️

How I am driven because of him, to spread wisdom literature far and wide. How his very life is an example for me, for all of us!

I could see that just talking about him, his books, his work didn't always land with everyone in the group, every single time.

So I changed my strategy and brought in colors and funny visuals (learning from Acharya ji of course! :)) and then connected that back to, how I benefitted from learning about Wisdom literature and philosophy from Acharya ji and how I wish his teachings reach younger children too, whose intelligence we discount to no end.

I started seeing much better reception in the group, the colorful, funny and thoughtful visuals reeled people in and they paid closer attention to Acharya ji.

People would praise my practice sketches and ask to take a photo of Acharya Ji’s books too.

I have already placed 2 of Acharya ji's books in the book cases and will keep adding more titles.

Wherever you are, please do what you can, try one thing, experiment with another, you alone can also make a difference, however insignificant it may see to you, please don't let that deter you, please share the love you have for Acharya ji in your heart with as many people as you can. It rubs off!

Teach yourself a new skill or pick up the passion project you abandoned, get creative, there are so many ways... Please let the love show! :)

I am learning from Miriam Wurster's and Sempe's work mainly who are both editorial cartoonists.

Source -Prerna Gita student

While scrolling through YouTube Shorts recently, I stumbled across a video that made me reflect deeply on a stubborn human trait: our instinctive refusal to accept anyone who falls outside society's narrow definition of "normal."

It struck me that our collective definition of "normal" is often quite arbitrary, arguably even abnormal, yet because a massive majority adheres to it, it gets grandfathered in as the baseline truth.

This led me to a question: Why do we hesitate so deeply to accept those who deviate from the majority?

My conclusion points straight to the ego and its desperate need for self-preservation.

An ego's identity is carefully constructed around conformity, validation, and the safety of belonging to the "normal" group. When we encounter someone who radically exists outside that framework, they act as an accidental mirror. Their very existence subtly challenges the foundational beliefs of the majority, implying that the safe, constructed identity we cling to might not be the only valid way to live.

To the fragile ego, this realization isn't just uncomfortable, it feels genuinely life-threatening, because dismantling that worldview threatens the entire structure of the self. As a result, the ego retreats into rejection and exclusion rather than expansion.

Curious to hear your thoughts on this. How much of our aversion to difference is just psychological self-defense?

Any outer thing which Is given , can be taken from us , People will blackmail, bend you for the things they have given , so Acknowledge what is Really Yours that will help us to live fearlessly and Free.

Source - Living Gita Through Quotes by Acharya Prashant Ji

As Indians often when we venture outside india and come across with people of other citizenships, we feel inferior thinking that there’s nothing valuable in us which we have ever contributed to the world. This inferiority complex is mainly driven by our immediate traumatic past of thousands of years’ slavery and colonialism. This trauma somewhere or the other has made us to look down upon ourselves quite frequently!

But what if it’s not true? What if there’s much more hidden beneath these layers of India’s traumatic past? 

Maybe now it’s the time, every Indian youth should realise that.. It’s the time when not only India, but the whole world require that ‘valuable Indian gem’ hiding within the deep roots of Indian Scriptures. It’s the right time when we need to go back to those texts and imbibe with the wisdom not only ourselves but to also scatter its stardust towards the whole humanity amidst this crisis of climate collapse and mental downfall.

In the above video, the speaker ‘Acharya Prashant’ being a wisdom teacher belonging to India himself is exactly addressing those Indian gems from the platform of British Parliament to the whole world. Its also a weird irony that the same platform which directly correlates to one of India’s traumatic colonial pasts is now been used in a completely different way to revive true Indian values.. not as a revenge, but as a benediction for everyone’s well being.

This question of ‘Koham (Who Am I)” which the speaker here is referring to is not only a mere aphoristic enquiry to be looked at, but its also the very base of why anything is visible to us at all. It’s shaking all the common moralities of the scripted lives we live following dead rules in a world which we don’t know even exists the way it appears to be or not. We opened our eyes as a little child in the first day and started visualising this world.. then we followed certain norms as directed by people around us and went on following them blindly without ever enquiring why we are following them in the very first place. And never for a moment, we stopped and asked ourselves: “Who is this person visualising?” & “Is this visualiser real at all?”

Well! Maybe thats where the Indian roots truly wants to take us now.

👉Acharya Prashant addressing British Parliament’s full video link: https://youtu.be/uTAnWPe-PEk?si=bithP3yJQrFhlGC2

The special interaction you were waiting for is finally LIVE!

Watch how prominent Neuroscientist Prof. Steve Fleming of University College London and Acharya ji dive into a rare discussion on cognition, brain, the ego and beyond.

🎥 Full Video: https://youtu.be/QZ9GNAZphjY

Ego likes people who validate the fragility that Ego is carrying with the blind beliefs . It's falseness that is liking the Niceness that is carrying falseness..!

I remember when Acharya Prashant Ji when told that I cannot expose you because you will again hurt me like did in Past..So when Acharya Ji said this , i didn't feel nice because Acharya Ji exposed the reality of our Relationship with him .. because Our Ego is such that , that it is counting on when will some deficiency I can spot on so I can get away ..so this is what condition of us who we are ..and that was truth ..it exposed us and leave us with choice either to Elevate us or rot where we are ..!

Sometimes the simplest moments leave behind the deepest questions.

I watched this short video today, and for a brief moment, I wasn’t seeing a cute baby flamingo. I was simply seeing a baby. Curious, vulnerable, learning from its parents, wanting nothing more than to live. It made me wonder why innocence feels so universal, and why our heart recognizes it so effortlessly, until the mind reminds us of the species. It made me wonder… How do we come to believe that our life is somehow more important than another’s? What happens within us that allows us to cherish one life, consume another, and remain indifferent to the suffering of a third?

Perhaps violence toward another is ultimately born of an inner fragmentation. Once the mind is divided, the world appears divided too. Some lives become precious, others become useful, and the rest become invisible.

Could it be that every act of violence towards another first reflects a violence already present within us? Where do you think this fragmentation begins? How do we reclaim a compassion that isn’t selective?

Do share your thoughts below. 💭

Once when asked from Acharya Prashant about the characteristics of a true ‘Guru’, he said: 
“The real Teacher is not a person. The Prophet is not a body. A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Do not associate these two; do not let your mind be engaged in gossip about the source of the voice. Rest assured the source of the voice is not the throat or the brain. Yes, because the voice is coming to you, so it must appear as if it is coming from a tongue, as if the language has been thought out by a human brain. But no, neither has the language been thought off by the human brain nor is the lip responsible for bringing the words to you. It is the song of the beyond. Just that it is being transmitted through a body, do not be concerned with the body, listen to the song.”

It’s not just a mere humble rejection coming from the speaker’s side, but it actually portrays something deeper. We often feel comfortable clinging to certain set of things/people so as to avoid ‘our’ own true responsibilities towards oneself. Often the things which we can’t achieve or express, we pertain to live it through exactly that same object(thing/person) which we consider to be ‘sacred’ or idol. But we ignore the fact that this life is solemnly one’s own and no matter how amazing any outer ‘person’ could be, at most that person can show you one’s subjective life’s ‘mirror’ through his life’s example.. but he/she can’t become that base copying/clinging onto which one can truly be free.

That doesn’t mean there is no true teacher at all.. but maybe not the way how most of us perceive it. The real teacher can’t be the speaker’s body/lips/tongue carrying forward the message, but it’s the understanding of the message itself which triggers one to be in that understanding that connects one to that common source.

Maybe the source of this understanding is that true teacher.. but what’s the point in gossiping about it because while gossiping, what if we miss that source within! What if that same source which initiated the outer teacher to make you understand his words can be initiated within each and everyone of us also if we listen to its whispered songs carefully.. if we focus on the songs more that lurking around mere bodies.

What do you think is the correct option(s) to this question? (There can be more than one correct options)

I would also love to know what kinds of meditation have you done in the past? And how has your understanding of this word changed over time?

The comments section is open. Let's meditate on it. 🧘‍♂️

It's taking them too much time it's been launch in china in April months and Here July is Ending, though it is listed on Amazon .

From Holistic Individual Developmental Program that I attended In Weekend with Masters with Acharya Prashant Ji, there was Activity :" How much of I " , There I realized how much my decision is Influenced by Others including Family , Friends, Collogues, This Chapter of Truth without apology which caught my attention also Explains this , that we should have Honest Check on Our inner circle of People from time to time to know , weather they are limiting us or Loving us ..! IF They are loving themselves it will add catalyst to our journey towards Freedom , otherwise they are holding back , in the name of love disguised as attachment, care , and support ..!

A small Chapter you should have time to ponder onto .. Because it's talking of the inner most circle which affect us the most .

One of my favorite quotes from Acharya Prashant ji.

Spirituality and philosophy could be this beautiful, I never would have known if not for him.

He said this during one the live sessions this week when he was explaining how the ego chooses to remain trapped in it same old patterns while calling itself victimized by external circumstances...

It was eye opening because ultimately, it all comes down to a choice. Every moment brings with itself a choice. A choice to stay the same or make a different decision.

Each moment brings with itself an opportunity for me to make a different choice.

If the ego makes the same old decisions, it gets to maintain status quo. Its identity as the victim as the one who was wronged and the one who deserved revenge.

Whereas if the ego makes a different choice, it could potentially lead to its own demise. The victim narrative will have to be left behind.

What we see as threat here, losing our identity, losing our narrative, our story is what holds us back, trapped in cages of our own making.

We weren't born with these.

We accumulated these over our lifetime.

We are one decision away from a very different life.

A free life.

A life worth living.

A life worth striving for.

A life where I'm neither the victim nor the perpetrator.

What does that life look like?

I don't know.

But I want to find out and I'm only one decision away from finding out. :)

Thank you to Acharya Prashant ji for this reminder.

Every moment brings with itself an opportunity to make a different decision and the opportunity to live a different life from the one I'm living right now... I don't need to be buried under the burden of my past.

I have the key to unlock the door of my cage.

I can set myself free.

I can breathe free and fly high in the open sky.

Reminds me of another one of his quotes...

"Dharti ke faisle jab karne ho toh aasmaan se poocho" When you have to make decisions on the material plane, look up at the sky for your answers. :)

Swarming Behavior: Seeing them swarm in massive numbers like this is very common, particularly after heavy rainfall or during the monsoon season. The water floods their natural habitat in the soil and decaying leaf litter, forcing them to emerge and seek higher, drier ground to avoid drowning.

From a book- Lover you have been missing By Acharya Prashant Ji .

Actor will be same regardless of situation he is interacting therefore his actions will be same , Beautifully Explained here .Do Read ✨

​I recently attended the Weekend with Master 3.0, hosted by Acharya Prashant Ji and the Foundation. It was an incredibly intense, immersive two-day experience that demanded everything we had. Operating on minimal sleep, our days began at 5:00 AM, with registration at the venue starting at 6:00 AM.

​By 7:00 AM, settled into a space blending a classroom and an auditorium, we dove into our HIDP activities. These sessions focused on deep psychological rewiring, aiming to dismantle the false identifications that lie at the root of human suffering. It forced us to confront our inner workings, revealing the severity of our attachments to various identities. This was followed by HIDP 2.0 "How much of I", which functioned as a psychometric analysis of the ego, mapping out its influences and their magnitude.

HIDP (Holistic Individual Developmental Program) were crafted to directly help and challange our structure of identity itself which is cause of suffering , As a clinical psychology student, the depth at which the the identity is dismantling which is cause of suffering is not even offered at our thereaptic level .. Clinical psychology is Superficial in Reference to the Teaching of Acharya Ji .

​A standout component was the role-playing exercise, which was both engaging and profoundly insightful. Given only ten minutes to script our plays, the dialogue had to be highly spontaneous. Stripped of the usual preparation, we were given a rare opportunity for raw, unvarnished self-expression. Concluding around 9:00 AM, these exercises fostered a deep sense of connection. Listening to others share their lives and struggles broadened our shared understanding of the human experience.

​Following breakfast, the main sessions commenced at 9:45 AM. We began by immersing ourselves in Bhajans, setting a contemplative tone for the teachings ahead. Acharya Ji masterfully decoded deep scriptures and hymns, translating their profound wisdom into practical, real-world examples. The morning culminated in an open Q&A, offering the invaluable opportunity to interact directly with him, before wrapping up between 2:00 and 3:00 PM.

​After a brief rest at our accommodations, we would return to the venue by 5:00 or 6:00 PM. The evening mirrored the intensity of the morning, filled with new HIDP activities, more spontaneous role-playing, and dinner. We once again lost ourselves in Bhajans and Acharya Ji’s evening discourse, which often extended well into the night, concluding around 1:00 or 2:00 AM. Despite the exhaustion, we were back at the venue by 7:00 AM the next morning, ready to do it all again. In Last session we also get to opportunity to directly interact with Acharya ji in person and get our book signed by Acharya Ji.

​Ultimately, the Weekend with Master was a journey deep into the self. By reflecting on our inner workings through structured activities and direct guidance from Acharya Ji, it offered a powerful opportunity to fundamentally change the "actor" within. It was a profound catalyst for personal transformation and a brilliant boost to the journey of life.

“The wise remain rooted in inner clarity as they observe the world. They let all things arise and pass away. Their mind is open like the sky.”

— Inspired by Lao Tzu

Imagine two people visiting the same beach.

One spends the day taking photographs, eating at familiar cafés, and watching the waves. He leaves believing he has had another wonderful experience.

The other walks the same shore but notices something different. The changing tides. The disappearing shells. The broken corals. The birds flying lower than usual.

She leaves seeing something she hadn't noticed before — about the beach, and about herself.

Both visited the same beach.

One collected experiences.

The other gained insight.

The difference was not what they saw, but how they saw it.

Perhaps this is true of life as well.

Life is an endless stream of experiences. There is never a moment when we are not experiencing something.

The eyes are made to see, the ears to hear. We cannot escape experience.

Acharya Ji offers a different way of looking at experience.

We rarely experience things as they are. We quickly turn them into something to consume, possess, or build an identity around.

Everything we encounter can become a mirror through which we understand ourselves better.

A colour is meant to be seen. But when desire enters perception, we no longer see the colour, we see our own fears, desires, assumptionsb and habits reflected in it. That is how blindness begins.

If desire blinds us, what keeps the wise seeing clearly?

They see the same world, the same attractions, the same pleasures and pains that we do. Yet they are not trapped by them.

Where does that clarity come from?

An experience is worthwhile only if it leaves you less conditioned and less ignorant about yourself than before.

Life is not meant for collecting experiences. It is meant for examining them.

Most of us aren't really looking for something new. We look for what already feels familiar, experiences that quietly confirm what we already believe.

Instead of expanding our vision, they strengthen our old patterns of thinking. We don't see more, we simply become more certain of what we already think we know.

That is why Acharya Ji warns against false experiences. They appear new, but they are only repetitions of the past.

Bring every object. Every relationship. Every idea. Bring them into your life, not to possess them, but to examine the beliefs they awaken in you.

The wise remain open to every experience because they question everything. They explore everything, yet cling to nothing.

Things come.

Things go.

Nothing is held.

Know the world, but do not become attached to it.

Seek words that make you uncomfortable. Words that quietly ask, "Why are you holding on so tightly?"

Before calling any belief good or bad, ask yourself:

Does it strengthen my old patterns, or help me see beyond them?

The best words are not the ones that comfort us.

They are the ones that loosen the grip of our old beliefs.

They leave the mind a little more open...

like the sky.

Think about the last experience you called "memorable." Did it simply entertain you, or did it help you see yourself more deeply?

Have you ever sat in a meeting, listened to a proposal you weren't entirely sure about, but just nodded along anyway? Maybe you didn't want to be the eternal naysayer, or you figured that since everyone else who are all far from stupid was unanimous, you should just keep your mouth shut.

​When everyone in a room acts like this, a social psychology phenomenon called Groupthink takes over.

​Here is a breakdown of what Groupthink actually is, the psychology of why our brains do it, and how it has caused some of the biggest fiascos in history.

​What exactly is Groupthink?

​Groupthink happens when a group of genuinely smart people ends up making reckless decisions because everyone is simply aligning their opinions with the supposed consensus. As a result, a group will pass motions that every single individual member would have personally rejected if peer pressure wasn't in the mix. It's actually a specialized branch of another psychological concept known as social proof.

​The Psychology Behind the Trap :

​Psychology professor Irving Janis studied several massive historical fiascos and found a consistent pattern in how tight-knit groups operate. He concluded that group members unconsciously build illusions to cultivate team spirit through a few specific mechanisms:

​The Illusion of Invincibility: The group develops a fantasy that if their leader is confident and the team is united, luck will simply be on their side and the plan will work.

​The Illusion of Unanimity: People assume that if everyone else seems to share the exact same opinion, any dissenting view must just be wrong.

​The Evolutionary Fear of Exclusion: Nobody wants to be the one who destroys team unity. In our evolutionary past, expressing reservations could mean getting excluded from the group. Because banishment historically guaranteed death, humans still carry a powerful, deep-seated urge to remain in a group's good graces.

​When Groupthink Causes Real-World Disasters

​1. The Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and his highly intelligent advisers voted unanimously in favor of a secret plan to overthrow Fidel Castro's government using exiled Cubans. It was an absolute disaster. Nothing went as planned, and on the very first day, the Cuban air force sank the first two supply ships, forcing the rest to flee back to the U.S.. Castro's army easily surrounded the brigade, taking 1,200 survivors to military prisons.

​How did such smart people make such an absurd plan? Groupthink. Their assumptions were wildly erroneous—for example, the group assumed the brigade could just retreat to hide in the Escambray mountains in an emergency. A quick glance at a map would have shown the group that those mountains were 100 miles away, separated by an insurmountable swamp!

​2. The Collapse of Swissair :

the business world isn't immune, either. Bolstered by the euphoria of past successes, a group of highly paid consultants rallied around Swissair's former CEO to develop a wildly high-risk expansion strategy. The team built up such a zealous consensus that they actively suppressed any rational reservations, which ultimately led to the entire airline collapsing in 2001.

?​How to Beat It

​If you ever find yourself sitting in a tight, unanimous group, you have to force yourself to speak your mind, even if the rest of the team doesn't like it. You have to question the tacit assumptions being made, even if it feels like you're risking expulsion from the "warm nest".

​If you're the one leading the group, your best defense is to officially appoint someone to play devil's advocate. That person definitely won't be the most popular member of the team, but they might end up being the most important one.

Source- From the Book The Art Of Thinking Clearly By Rolf Dobelli .